I sure wish everyone would include the common name with their latin name. I`m so lost when these names appear, and senior moments are lasting longer and longer, eyes fadiing out looking in all of the seed catalogs for these plants that aren`t in there anyway. Need that little bird that tells all to come and stay with me awhile.LOL.
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busybee... try searching thru http://google.com - all u need to do is type in the name and the referal page page will show, click on the url u wish to see. that's all there is to finding the common name. try it u might like it =).
Here's a couple more
http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/ (Plants For A Future Database)
http://www.neoflora.com/ (Neoflora database)
http://www.botany.com/ (Botany.com)
...still guys..it's nice to see a common name accompanying the Latin...
"eyes"
I have to agree, it's nice to see a common name
sometimes I don't know the common name. Anytime someone posts for either that I don't recognize, I go first to the PDB and then to images.google.com I learn everytime, one way or the other.
I don't use common names because there are too many cases where the same common name is used for more than one thing, and often they're VERY different!
I work for a 25 acre tree farm. We use both names on each line item of each invoice. We buy seeds & plants & trees for inventory. The bills are in one or the other name, never both. When I put the invoice in Payables, if it is all botanical & I don't recognize it, I have to look it up to put in the computer. Another reason, to use both.
When I get a new plant, I put it on a list with both names & it's needs. I have over 100 different plants, all in containers. I even have a Tx Mt Laurel that is in a 15 gallon pot. Thank Heaven, it is a slow grower.
I have saved enough hyperlinks to my Favorites, that I can find almost anything if I can spell it! So, if some plant is posted & I don't know what it is, I just look it up. Thank Dave & all for our database.
Guess you could say, I'm neutral but lean to both.
Smockette, how much is that Sophora? I have thousands of seeds, and have considered propagating them for selling. It's true they grow slowly, which is probably why they are so high priced, but I can sort of speed them up with a little custom care. Between the sophoras and some pines in Louisiana, I might have a decent retirement if I wasn't already so old!